Distant Space
An arcade space shooter with alien formations and boss fights
PixelMouse · Released Dec 20, 2016
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 83% of 635
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 2
- daily peak, Oct 30, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 8 years ago
- Nov 1, 2017
What is Distant Space?
You pilot a spaceship in a 2D shoot 'em up styled after 1980s arcade games, destroying aliens that move in set patterns. You progress through 26 levels, including boss encounters.
For you if...
- +you prefer shooting and dodging without learning complex systems
Not for you if...
- −you want a lengthy campaign with plenty of content
What players say
83% of 635 reviews are positive
Players appreciate being able to retry the current level after defeat. Several warn that selecting Start instead of Continue resets progress without a confirmation prompt.
Screenshots and trailer
Distant Space system requirements
Minimum: 2 GB RAM.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Distant Space?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7
- Processor
- 1 GHz Processor
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
Does Distant Space have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Distant Space run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 44
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Portuguese - Brazil, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Danish, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Finnish, Czech, Swedish, Japanese, Azerbaijani, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Afrikaans, Basque, Belarusian, Bangla, Bosnian, Valencian, Welsh, Wolof, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Dari, Zulu, Hebrew, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Icelandic, Yoruba, Kazakh, Kannada, Catalan, Quechua, Kinyarwanda, K'iche', Konkani, Xhosa, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Persian, Serbian, Sotho, Sinhala, Sindhi, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorani, Swahili, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tigrinya, Tswana, Turkmen, Uzbek, Uyghur, Urdu, Filipino, Hausa, Hindi, Croatian, Cherokee, Scots, Estonian.
Does Distant Space use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Shoot 'Em Up
- Indie
- Arcade
- Space
- Pixel Graphics
- Casual
- Action
- 2D
- Adventure
- 1980s
- Retro
- Difficult
- Shooter
- Bullet Hell
- Minimalist
- Singleplayer
Recent updates
- Nov 1, 2017 · Update!
- Nov 1, 2017 · Update!
- May 7, 2017 · Global update of gameplay and interface!
- May 7, 2017 · Global update of gameplay and interface!
